Feds want e-voting source code disclosed

[james]

From CNET
"Electronic voting machine vendors should make their source code available for scrutiny by state elections officials, the head of a federal voting commission says (http://news.com.com/Feds+want+e-voting+source+code+disclosed/2100-1028_3-5229162.html?tag=nefd.top)"

[Jason]

God help us if someone hacks that code. We can look forward to all elections being bought ahead of time.

[vee_ess]

I'm pretty sure they are probably using servers based on the NSA's version of the Linux kernel, which is open-source and yet the most secure software out. No doubt, people will be trying.

[james]

umm, actually, a lot of the evoting machines run off of good ole windows. I kid you not. I was running an academic forum on technical, legal, and political aspects of E-voting at my university. We had one of the big name companies come to display their technology and I was setting up AV equipment. Right behind me they are setting up their machine, and then I hear the windows logon sound. My jaw dropped to the floor.

This actually makes things even worse than having MS running our voting machines. With MS in so many voting machines, they'll have an incredibly powerful lobby to stop any requirements to open up voting machien source code, as MS code would be part of that as well.